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Sunday, August 27, 2023

Arteta's lost the plot

 By 1970s Gooner 

There are four reasons why I believe Arteta has lost the plot.

The first one is his obsession to tinker with something that wasn't broke. In fact it was working smashingly well last season until injuries, squad depth and inexperience of a young team took its toll.

His tinkering has confused the Arsenal players as was so evident with choosing a midfield player to play as an inverted right back. Fulham's first goal came about from Partey ignoring or not being aware that Saka was under pressure and rushed to position himself in midfield leaving a huge gap behind.

Furthermore Arteta has removed White from right back which had the knock on effect of depriving Saka the excellent relationship he had with White. This was a major reason last season which unlocked the spaces behind the two defenders who are usually assigned to stop Saka.

Secondly amidst all this tinkering he insists on starting Havertz in every game when it is blatantly obvious that the boy is not delivering. He can not mark well, link with Martinelli nor score. WHAT CAN HE DO?

Start Trossard there, ESR, Vieira or better still DROP him and play Rice there. He can do the job for sure.

Thirdly why did he have to go with a false number nine? Especially with all the confusion created with all the tinkering in the rest of the team. Start Nketiah there for all of our sake. He has proved that he is up for it.

WAKE UP MIKEL

Dropping points like this and insisting on carrying on with this tinkering will mean that we are now out of the title race unless City hand it to us.

Your target now has to be to finish in the top 5.

This is what has to be done:

1. Reinstate Gabriel in defence and White at right back 

2. Drop Havertz and play Partey, Rice and Odegaard in midfield

3. Give Nketiah a run he will score goals for you

4. STOP TINKERING, you and this squad is not that experienced to copy Pep and his tinkering. 



10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I concur

Anonymous said...

100% correct

Anonymous said...

Absolutely spot on

Anonymous said...

I almost cried watching Havert. It's like Arteta has a broken toy that should be in the bin but refuses to listen to his parents until he cuts himself on it. Damage is done. Should of listened your parents (the fans)

Anonymous said...

Hear hear

Anonymous said...

I feel justified that we've all seen how terrible we've been playing - from the very first game. After our win against forest I complained about our 2nd half performance - pointing out that Havertz isn't good enough and that Arteta seems to be gambling with our season. So many arsenal fans disagreed with me at the time
Well, there you have it

Anonymous said...

Spot on. Nothing more to be said.

Anonymous said...

Actually there’s one more thing to add. If he sells ESR that will be unforgivable!

Anonymous said...

Let me be the odd one out and disagree. The stats show that we did even better this game against Fulham vs the same fixture last year. So the tinkering has improved both our attack and defense. One can't tinker against Liverpool, Barcelona or Bayern, nor in the knockout cup completions ( Carabao excepted) only against these smaller teams.

The end of season collapse last year also showed very clearly the risks of keeping a stable and predictable 11.

Artetas Earned some trust from us after the brilliant season last year, the first time we have looked like a serious outfit in 10 years.

Even on Havertz, if he gives us more in game control/ pressing and chaos factor, that might be useful beyond direct G+A.

ManC has also turned over half their squad. It'll be interesting to see whether they can deliver to the same levels as before.

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